The Loeb-Leopold case - The Clarence Darrow Collection

The Loeb-Leopold Case
They planned to go to the vicinity of this fac-
tory, your Honor, where they had been several times
prior to that, and be unobserved. They had a place
where they could stand, and with the field glasses
that they had used for observing the little tots at
play, they were to observe this train approaching.
And if that train should be late, your Honor, or
slow down at that particular point, they had it
planned to drive on, fearing trouble.
Why, it would not be possible to apprehend them
in a hundred thousand years. Think of the per-
fection of that plan. Not even Jacob Franks, your
Honor, knew what was going to happen until he got
on that train at 63rd Street, if their plans had
worked out, and by the time he had reached 74th
Street, he had disposed of the money.
And on Friday morning Leopold went to the Uni-
versity of Chicago, your Honor, and there proceeded
to take this entrance examination for Harvard, one
of the great universities of the world, and his intel-
lect enabled him to safely pass.
And while Leopold was taking this examination
for Harvard, Loeb said to some newspaper reporters,
" Why don't you go along 63 rd Street and try and
locate those drug stores that they were calling to
and from? Let me go along with you. I will help
you to find them." Your Honor will remember that
Jacob Franks, in his excitement, had forgotten the
number of the street to which he had been told to go
by Leopold.
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